ultimate

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌltɪmɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʌltəmɪt/

EtymologyEdit

From Medieval Latin ultimatus (“furthest, last”), past participle of Latin ultimare (“to come to an end”), from ultimus (“last, final”). See ultra-.

AdjectiveEdit

ultimate (not comparable)

1. Final; last in a series.
   • 1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England^[1], page 15:

     […] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]

2. (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
3. Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.

   the ultimate pleasure

   the ultimate disappointment

   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii

     Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

4. Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
5. That will happen at some time; eventual.
6. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
   • Coleridge

     those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict

7. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

   an ultimate constituent of matter

SynonymsEdit

• uttermost

AntonymsEdit

• (w.r.t. causes): proximate

Derived termsEdit

• antepenultimate
• penultimate
• ultimateness

Coordinate termsEdit

• (adjectives denoting syllables): penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)

Related termsEdit

• ulterior
• ultimatum
• ultra
• ultra-

TranslationsEdit

final; last in a series

• Dutch: definitief (nl)
• French: dernier (fr)
• Galician: último (gl)
• Georgian: საბოლოო (saboloo), უკანასკნელი (uḳanasḳneli)
• German: letzter (de)?, letzlich, ultimativ (de)
• Indonesian: pamungkas (id)
• Italian: ultimo (it) m, ultima (it) f

• Macedonian: последен m (pósleden), краен m (kráen), завршен m (závršen), конечен m (kónečen)
• Norwegian: endelig (no)
• Polish: ostatni (pl) m
• Portuguese: último (pt) m, última (pt) f
• Russian: после́дний (ru) (poslédnij), оконча́тельный (ru) (okončátelʹnyj), кра́йний (ru) (krájnij), заверши́тельный (zaveršítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: último (es), final (es)
• Swedish: ultimat (sv), slutlig (sv), slutgiltig (sv)

last in a word or other utterance

greatest or maximum

• Estonian: ülim
• Georgian: უკიდურესი (uḳiduresi), მაქსიმალური (maksimaluri)
• German: ultimativ (de)
• Indonesian: pamungkas (id)
• Italian: estremo (it) m, estrema (it) f
• Macedonian: најголем m (nájgolem), врвен m (v'rven)

• Norwegian: ultimat
• Polish: największy m, najwyższy m
• Russian: наибо́льший (ru) (naibólʹšij), наивы́сший (ru) (naivýsšij)
• Spanish: máximo (es), extremo (es), mayor (es)
• Swedish: slutliga (sv)

most distant

• Georgian: უკიდურესი (uḳiduresi)
• German: äußerster
• Macedonian: најдалечен m (najdálečen)

• Russian: наидальне́йший (naidalʹnéjšij)
• Serbo-Croatian: najdalji (sh)
• Spanish: último (es)

eventual

• Italian: definitivo (it) m, definitiva (it) f, conclusivo (it) m, conclusiva (it) f, ultimativo m, ultimativa f, finale (it)
• Macedonian: конечен m (kónečen), краен m (kráen)

• Russian: коне́чный (ru) (konéčnyj), оконча́тельный (ru) (okončátelʹnyj)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ultiem (nl), laatst (nl), uiteindelijk (nl)
• Finnish: lopullinen (1), paras (2)
• French: ultime (fr)

• German: ultimativ (de)
• Latin: ultimus

NounEdit

ultimate (plural ultimates)

1. The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
2. The final or most distant point; the conclusion
3. The greatest extremity; the maximum
4. (uncountable) A non-contact competitive team sport played with a 175 gram flying disc, the object of which is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone.

   Ultimate (sport) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

TranslationsEdit

ultimate frisbee — see ultimate frisbee

VerbEdit

ultimate (third-person singular simple present ultimates, present participle ultimating, simple past and past participle ultimated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.
   • 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine (volume 41, page 36)

     These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.

Further readingEdit

• ultimate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• ultimate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

AnagramsEdit

• mutilate

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FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈultimɑte/
• Hyphenation: ul‧ti‧ma‧te

NounEdit

ultimate

1. ultimate frisbee (game)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of ultimate (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		ultimate	ultimatet
genitive		ultimaten	ultimatejen
partitive		ultimatea	ultimateja
illative		ultimateen	ultimateihin
		singular	plural
nominative		ultimate	ultimatet
accusative	nom.	ultimate	ultimatet
	gen.	ultimaten
genitive		ultimaten	ultimatejen ultimateinrare
partitive		ultimatea	ultimateja
inessive		ultimatessa	ultimateissa
elative		ultimatesta	ultimateista
illative		ultimateen	ultimateihin
adessive		ultimatella	ultimateilla
ablative		ultimatelta	ultimateilta
allative		ultimatelle	ultimateille
essive		ultimatena	ultimateina
translative		ultimateksi	ultimateiksi
instructive		—	ultimatein
abessive		ultimatetta	ultimateitta
comitative		—	ultimateineen

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ItalianEdit

VerbEdit

ultimate

1. second-person plural present indicative of ultimare
2. second-person plural imperative of ultimare
3. feminine plural of ultimato

AnagramsEdit

• multiate, mutilate

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LatinEdit

VerbEdit

ultimāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ultimō